Post on 23-Jan-2023
Corsair R12 Upgrade
Upgrade from 11i (11.5.10) to R12 (12.1.3)
Ramesh Potta
About Corsair
• Corsair is a global company bringing innovative, high-performance components to the PC gaming market. Specializing in very high performance memory, ultra-efficient power supplies, and other key system components, our products are the choice of overclockers, enthusiasts, and gamers everywhere.
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Our Environment
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• What We Have
Oracle Modules
Core Financials (GL, AP, AR, FA and CE)
Supply Chain (OM, PO, Mobile and Adv Pricing)
Manufacturing (Inventory, BOM and WIP)
Agile
AME
Custom Applications & Integrations Web Store Integration (Online Store)
EDI
Freight Forwarder
Extensions & Customizations (Heavy) Few Custom Forms
Lot of Forms Personalization
Materialized views and Views for reporting system. (Over 300 reports)
Automations for internal processes
Automations for external data to interface into Oracle
More…. • Cont…
Our Environment
• No. of Users (Applications, Reporting) : 250
• No. of Operating Units : 8
• No. of Inventory Warehouses : 5
• No. Consolidation Ledgers(Books) : 2
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Upgrade From - To
• Upgraded Applications from 11i (11.5.10) to R12 (12.1.3)
• Upgraded database from 9i to 11g
• Upgraded OS from 32 bit to 64 bit
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Key Factors to Upgrade
• Cost Savings
• Hardware & Database Benefits
• New Functionality
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Cost Savings
• Avoid De-Support for 11i
• Leverage new functionality of R12 to minimize customization (R12 has over 1500 major enhancements)
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Hardware & DB Upgrade Benefits
• Migrate to more effective 64 bit Linux servers
• Migrate Application Servers to 64-bit hardware
• Database Upgrade to 11g for better performance
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New Functionality (Used for our Environment)
• AGIS – Advance Global Intercompany System (Which replace our custom Inter Company Process)
• Take advantages of MOAC
• SLA – To have better view of multiple ledgers/ Consolidation data for business decisions
• Deferred revenue and COGS
• Improved Processing efficiency for General Ledger
• A centralized banking model using a trading community architecture;
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Why We Upgraded rather re-implementation
• No major business process change
• No organization restructuring
• COA unchanged
• Current system is reconciled up-to-date, no bad data
• Obtaining a more robust and scalable architecture
• Upgrading can provide advanced database capabilities, better integration, newer extensions and personalization, and improved security for enterprise applications.
• Enhancing efficiency
• Enable the easy design of multiple tax models, and introduce newer, more flexible accounting elements.
• Streamlining compliance
• compliance with industry regulations can be greatly simplified by upgrading to a newer version of the application.
• Reporting
• Newer versions of enterprise applications often have improved reporting capabilities.
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Implementation Statistics
• Duration : 3.5 Months
• Project Status : Completed
• Go Live : On Schedule
• Process : 2 CRP’s, 1 UAT and Production
• UPK’s Developed : Over 250 topics
• Implementation Team : Internal
• No. IT Staff : 2.5
• No. of tasks identified : 1284
• Show stopper after Go Live : 0
• No. Issues after Go Live : Less than 6
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